My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1173: Chapter 463: Killing the Body, Crushing the Spirit—Hit While Lying Down (2)

It’s rare to leave work on time any day.

For other resident doctors, the most frustrating thing is working overnight shifts and overtime.

Even attending physicians find it hard to escape the issue of overtime.

Only after being promoted to associate chief physician can one lead a relatively normal life. However, it’s still very exhausting all day long. Usually, they leave home around six in the morning and may not return until eight or nine at night.

Choosing a career in medicine, as long as you really want to develop well, fatigue, and busyness will almost accompany you for life.

Besides clinical medical tasks, there are also teaching tasks, research tasks, and self-study to improve academic level.

Therefore, doctors rarely have leisure time.

Many doctors take driving lessons at night. It’s simply because they’re too busy.

The department where Zhou Can works is very considerate of him, never assigning him overtime, and he rarely has to work night shifts. However, his workload is extremely heavy. Not to mention, the cardiothoracic surgery department always has complex surgeries to perform, and he has never refused any.

Occasionally, he even has to run to other departments to participate in consultations.

For example, in pediatric surgery, neurosurgery, and general surgery... these departments he is familiar with, knowing his abilities, whenever there is a difficult case, they always invite him because they believe Zhou Can can help.

In this regard, Zhou Can almost never refuses.

During the process of consulting on those complex cases, he can learn many medical knowledge points that are not in textbooks and accumulate more diagnostic experience. Applying his learned knowledge flexibly is also greatly helpful.

In the end, he often earns a lot of pathology diagnostic experience points.

If he’s lucky, he also earns a considerable amount of pharmacological differentiation experience points.

Because of these benefits, every time a department invites him, he enthusiastically rushes to help.

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The next day, Zhou Can went to work at the hospital as usual.

Since his home is now very close, he generally chooses to walk. However, most of the time, his car is parked in the hospital’s underground garage.

The hospital doesn’t impose any parking restrictions on staff.

Back when Director Mi was the head of the security department, he never targeted hospital staff parking. Parking fees were only charged to patients and their families.

Just as Zhou Can was about to reach the emergency hall, a middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap, black leather jacket, and blue jeans approached him quickly.

Faced with such a mysteriously dressed stranger approaching quickly, every healthcare worker would be highly vigilant.

Because you never know if in the next second, he might pull out a 30-centimeter-long watermelon knife and attack you.

Sometimes, even clinical doctors don’t know how they’ve offended patients and their families.

In their work, doctors are also human; it is impossible to guarantee 100% satisfaction for patients and their families.

Especially some truculent family members and patients, who are more ’professional’ than the doctors, instructing doctors on how to treat using popular science information from the internet or advice from acquaintances.

Facing such patients, probably nine out of ten doctors would initiate defensive medical strategies.

The remaining one, unless they’re a rookie, is mostly thinking about how to persuade this difficult patient to leave.

"Are you Zhou Can?"

"Hmm!"

Zhou Can’s muscles were already tense, ready to act.

He could feel a strong hostility from the man’s gaze.

Running through his mind quickly, he was sure he didn’t know this person. He hadn’t recently had a patient die or become disabled in his care!

In terms of reputation, Zhou Can was not only prominent in the emergency department but could also rank in the top ten of the entire Tuya Hospital.

The cure rate for patients treated by him was very high.

"I’m warning you, stay away from my wife. Otherwise, be careful of what might happen to that pretty girlfriend who brings you lunch every day."

The man said in a low, vicious voice.

"Who is your wife?"

The fact that the man could mention that his girlfriend brings him lunch every day indicates that he has been observing Zhou Can secretly for more than a day.

In his usual work, compared to those male doctors who like to joke with female doctors and nurses, Zhou Can is considered a paragon of propriety. This aspect was influenced somewhat by Dr. Xu.

Whether in the operating room or elsewhere, Dr. Xu always wore a serious expression.

He never joked lewdly with female nurses or doctors.

Zhou Can really couldn’t figure out with which female doctor or nurse he had been too close, leading to this person’s misunderstanding that he had been cuckolded.

"Xue Yan!"

The man spat out the two words heavily.

"Ah... You are Sister Yan’s husband?"

Zhou Can had never known about Xue Yan’s family situation, nor had he met her husband.

He never expected the first meeting would be in this manner.

"See how intimately you address her, I knew something was off between you two." The man’s face twitched, becoming somewhat distorted.

Zhou Can was speechless.

Heaven knows, with a sixteen or seventeen-year age gap between him and Director Xue Yan, how could there be any romantic ambiguity with her?

In their interactions, they always showed mutual respect and never crossed any lines.

"I think you must be mistaken. I only have a colleague relationship with Director Xue. We were both Dr. Hu Kan’s apprentices in the past. In our work relationship, I have only respect for Director Xue and no romantic thoughts. Moreover, as you know, I have a girlfriend, and it’s impossible for me to have any improper desires for other women."

Zhou Can could only patiently explain to the man.

Since this man was Xue Yan’s husband, Zhou Can didn’t want to affect Xue Yan’s family stability.

Although Xue Yan is quite beautiful, after all, she is already in her forties and doesn’t really have any appeal to a successful young man like Zhou Can, who isn’t short of money.

He also isn’t someone who has a preference for older women.

"Save your arguments. Last night, you and my wife were in the office for nearly an hour. When she came out, she was excited and her face flushed. Even a fool would understand what happened. And your solitary encounters weren’t just once or twice. If I catch you near my wife again, you’ll see what happens."

After saying this, the man didn’t wait for Zhou Can to explain further and just left.

Zhou Can never expected to encounter such an incident early in the morning.

The man was convinced that he had a romantic relationship with Xue Yan and wouldn’t listen to his explanations. The situation was indeed troubling.

After work in the evening, Zhou Can found a voice message from Director Le, asking him to come by because a patient who underwent thoracic surgery was experiencing intense postoperative pain. They wanted him to help check it out.

Cardiothoracic surgeries are all high-risk.

If the patient experiences severe postoperative pain, it usually isn’t a good sign. If the cause isn’t found and addressed immediately, the consequences could be severe, including patient death.

Besides Director Le from the cardiothoracic department asking for his help, the pediatric department also requested his consultation.

Moreover, it was Director Tang Fei who personally intervened, saying that they admitted a child with a complicated condition and wanted him to consult on it.

The fact that Director Tang Fei personally requested implies that the pediatric specialists have already consulted on that child but haven’t reached a satisfactory conclusion. The usual issues are unknown causes or surgeries that are too complex to be feasible.

No matter the situation, Zhou Can excels in these areas.

During surgeries, he frequently stays in the operating room, performing up to twenty or thirty surgeries a day. Sometimes he even steps in for thoracic or neurosurgery, taking the operating lead in critical operations.

Why act as the lead operator instead of holding the title?

It’s due to the surgery level accreditation system restricting him.

Younger resident doctors wouldn’t dare to officially perform a Level 4 major surgery, even if they were the son of the hospital president.

Therefore, he could only act somewhat unofficially, without acknowledgment.

For some complex or difficult pediatric surgeries, when unsure, consulting Zhou Can often leads to an accurate outcome.

If Zhou Can says they can proceed, it’s usually fine.

If he says they can’t, then it’s indeed impossible.

Because he’s familiar with various surgical departments, he knows the capabilities and standards of each department.

As for identifying unknown causes in pediatric cases, having Zhou Can consult usually helps determine the cause, often not disappointing the pediatric experts.

"I’ll get there as soon as I can!"

Zhou Can first replied to Director Tang Fei’s message, then quickly headed to the cardiothoracic department.

Since he didn’t need to perform surgeries in the cardiothoracic department today, he could go home early to rest. Zhou Can specifically instructed Su Qianqian not to bring him lunch.

He was also worried about Xue Yan’s husband acting irrationally, potentially targeting Su Qianqian.

Staying at home would be safer.

With the protection of Wei Fang and the sophisticated monitoring and defense systems at home, not even professional kidnappers could easily abduct her from home, let alone Xue Yan’s husband.